nion Calendar No. 10. 

62 d Congress, ) HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, j Report 
1st Session. i j No. 33, 


CONSTITUTIONS OF NEW MEXICO AND ARIZONA. 


May 12, 1911.—Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the 

Union and ordered to be printed. 


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Mr. Flood of Virginia, from the Committee on the Territories, sub¬ 
mitted the following 

REPORT. 

[To accompany H. J. Res. 14.] 

The Committee on the Territories, to whom was referred the joint 
resolution (H. J. Res. 14) approving the constitutions formed by the 
constitutional conventions of the Territories of New Mexico and Ari¬ 
zona, having had the same under consideration, reports it back with 
a substitute and with the recommendation that the substitute do 
pass. 

The act “To enable the people of New Mexico to form a constitu¬ 
tion and State government and be admitted into the Union on an 
equal footing with the original States; and to enable the people of 
Arizona to form a constitution and State government and be admitted 
into the Union on an equal footing with the original States,” approved 
June 20, 1910, provided that when the constitutions for the proposed 
States of New Mexico and Arizona therein provided for should be 
formed in accordance with the terms and conditions of said enabling 
act, and said constitutions so framed should have been ratified by the 
people of New Mexico and Arizona, respectively, at elections pro¬ 
vided for in said enabling act, certified copies thereof should be sub¬ 
mitted to the President of the United States and to Congress for 
approval, and that if Congress and the President should approve the 
constitutions, or if the President should approve said constitutions 
and Congress should fail to disapprove the same during the next 
regular session of Congress, then, and in that event, the President 
should certify the fact to the governors of New Mexico and Arizona, 
respectively, who should, within 30 days thereafter, issue proclama¬ 
tions for the election of State and county officers and other officers 
of said proposed States, as therein set forth. 

The committee reports that constitutions have been framed by 
constitutional conventions in accordance with the terms and condi¬ 
tions of said enabling act and have been duly ratified by the people 
of New Mexico and Arizona, respectively, at elections held for that 















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purpose, and that certified copies thereof have been duly submitted 
to Congress and to the President of the United States for approval in 
accordance with the terms of said enabling act. 

The committee further reports that on February 24, 1911, the 
President approved the said constitution of New Mexico in a message 
to the Congress as follows: 

To the Senate and House of Representatives: 

The act to enable the people of New Mexico to form a constitution and State govern¬ 
ment and be admitted into the Union on an equal footing with the original States, 
etc., passed June 20, 1910, provides that when the constitution, for the adoption of 
which provision is made in the act, shall have been duly ratified by the people of 
New Mexico in the manner provided in the statute, a certified copy of the same will 
be submitted to the President of the United States and to Congress for approval, 
and that if Congress and the President approve of such constitution, or if the President 
approve the same and Congress fails to disapprove the same during the next regular 
session thereof, then that the President shall certify said facts to the governor of New 
Mexico, who shall proceed to issue his proclamation for the election of State and county 
officers, etc. 

The constitution prepared in accordance with the act of Congress has been duly 
ratified by the people of New Mexico, and a certified copy of the same has been 
submitted to me and also to the Congress for approval, in conformity with the provi¬ 
sions of the act. Inasmuch as the enabling act requires affirmative action by the Presi¬ 
dent, I transmit herewith a copy of the constitution, which, I am advised, has also 
been separately submitted to Congress, according to the provisions of the act, by the 
authorities of New Mexico, and to which I have given my formal approval. 

I recommend the approval of the same by the Congress. 

Wm. H. Taft. 

The White House, February 24, 1911 . 

The President so far has not acted on the said constitution of 
Arizona. 

The committee further reports that it has had said constitutions 
under consideration and finds the same to be republican in form; that 
they make no distinction in civil or political rights on account of race 
or color, and that they are not repugnant to the Constitution of the 
United States or the Declaration of Independence, and that they are 
in conformity with the provisions of the enabling act. 

The committee further reports that on February 16, 1911, Congress 
passed and the President approved a joint resolution entitled 11 Joint 
resolution reaffirming the boundary line between Texas and the Ter¬ 
ritory of New Mexico,” defining the boundary line between the pro¬ 
posed State of New Mexico and the State of Texas, which boundary 
as defined in said resolution is not the boundary as defined in said 
constitution, and said joint resolution was passed to correct and 
define said boundary line and declared that any provision of said 
constitution that in any way tends to annul or change the boundary 
line defined in said joint resolution should be of no force or effect, 
but should be so construed as not in any way to change, affect, or 
alter said boundary lines defined in said joint resolution, and that 
the boundary line defined in said joint resolution “should be held 
and declared a conclusive location and settlement of said boundary 
fines.” 

The committee has carefully considered the said resolution so 
referred to it, and has had a number of meetings, at which citizens 
from the two Territories, particularly New Mexico, have appeared 
and been heard; representatives of the Anti-Saloon League and the 
Woman’s Christian Temperance Union of New Mexico were also heard. 


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Hie committee also had before it the report of the hearings and 
evidence produced before the same committee of the Sixty-first 
Congress on this question. 

The substitute admits both of the Territories as States without 
approving the constitution of either; in fact, changes in both con¬ 
stitutions are suggested bv the substitute, which in effect is a dis¬ 
approval of both constitutions as adopted. 

This has been done in order to meet the views of those Members of 
Congress who are willing to admit these Territories as States but who 
are averse to affirmatively approving their constitutions as adopted. 

It the case of New Mexico the suggested change is in Article XIX 
of its proposed constitution, which is the article on amendments. 
The reason for submitting this suggested change is that this article, as 
contained in the proposed constitution, taken in connection with the 
apportionment for the members of the legislature, renders it extremely 
difficult, if not impossible, to amend this constitution. 

Article XIX as adopted requires that amendments may be pro¬ 
posed by two-thirds of all the members elected to each house of the 
legislature, except that at the first regular session held after the 
expiration of two years, and every eight years thereafter, a majority 
can propose amendments; but in either case only three amendments 
can be submitted at one election, and this must be a general election, 
and all amendments must be ratified by a majority of the electors 
voting thereon, and this majority must equal 40 per cent of all of the 
votes cast for any purpose and 40 per cent of the vote cast in at least 
one-half of the counties of the State. The question of calling a con¬ 
stitutional convention can not be submitted to a vote of the people 
until the expiration of 25 years except by a three-fourths vote of all 
the members elected to each house of the legislature, and to call a 
convention during that period there must not only be a majority of 
all the electors voting at the election, but there must also be a major¬ 
ity of all the electors voting in one-half of the counties. 

From a consideration of these provisions it will be seen that it will 
be extremely difficult for the people of New Mexico to secure the 
holding of a constitutional convention during the first 25 years, and 
when these provisions are considered in connection with the appor¬ 
tionment for members of the legislature provided by the constitution, 
the extreme difficulty of amending the constitution in any way will be 
manifest. By reference to the apportionment, it will be found that 
the four counties of Colfax, San Miguel, Bernalillo, and Socorro, with an 
aggregate population of 77,000, and which, on the basis adopted by the 
constitutional convention for representatives in the senate, would 
entitle this population to between five and six senators, are so appor¬ 
tioned that they constitute parts of 10 senatorial districts and can 
control the election of 10 of the 24 senators, and thus prevent the 
securing of two-thirds of the senators necessary to submit to the 
people an amendment to the constitution. 

Then it will be further seen that if under such conditions an amend¬ 
ment is submitted to the people the Constitution makes it extremely 
difficult to secure the necessary vote for its adoption. To adopt such 
an amendment a majority of the electors voting on the amendment 
must of course vote for it, and in addition this majority must consist 
of 40 per cent of the vote cast on all questions and 40 per cent of the 
vote cast in one-half of the counties. Thus it will be seen that if an 




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amendment is submitted at a general election at which 25,000 votes 
are cast but only 10,000 votes cast upon the amendment, 9,000 of 
which are in favor of it and 1,000 against it, the amendment would 
be lost, because 40 per cent of all the votes cast at the election were 
not cast for the amendment. Or, again, if the amendment was pop¬ 
ular in 12 of the 26 counties and unpopular in the other 14, 15,000 
votes might be cast for it and none against it in the 12 counties, and 
3,500 votes for it in the other 14 counties and 6,500 against it, and yet 
an amendment upon which there might have been 18,500 votes cast 
for and 6,500 votes against, would be lost. It is only necessary to 
call attention to such provisions to secure their condemnation. 

It is moreover found that the population of the counties lying 
along the eastern border of New Mexico have increased very rapidly 
in population in the past decade and will probably increase more 
rapidly in the future. The apportionment provided in the consti¬ 
tution suggests the denial of adequate representation to the rapidly 
increasing population of that section for a long time, unless the 
constitution is made more easy of amendment. 

Certain other provisions of the constitution as framed and adopted 
are very objectionable, and will in their operation be very oppressive 
to the people of the new State, and it is claimed that they were 
brought about at the instigation and in the interest of certain large 
corporations and special interests whom it is claimed exerted large 
influence in the framing of the proposed constitution. The com¬ 
mittee, however, has not thought fit to undertake to correct such 
objectionable features because it did not feel that it was in the 
province of Congress to make a constitution for the proposed State. 

The substitute resolution suggests an amendment to the proposed 
constitution of New Mexico, providing that any amendments may 
be proposed at any regular session by a majority of all the members 
elected to the legislature, and that the same shall be submitted to 
the electors for ratification or rejection at the next general election 
or at a special election, and if ratified by a majority of the electors 
voting thereon such amendment or amendments shall become a part 
of the constitution, thus putting it in the power of the people of the 
new State to amend their constitution if desirable to correct or 
eliminate any provisions thereof that may be found to be objec¬ 
tionable or oppressive. 

The constitution also attempts to secure the original Mexican or 
Spanish-American population of New Mexico in their equal right of 
suffrage and in the enjoyment of equal rights of education with 
other citizens, present and prospective, of the new State. Your 
committee has not only by its proposed amendment of said Article 
NIX preserved such rights as are secured in the proposed consti¬ 
tution, but has made sections 1 and 3 of Article VII, on the elective 
franchise, and sections 8 and 10 of Article XII, on education, more 
secure against amendment than is provided in said proposed con¬ 
stitution. This was done to make clearer and more certain what 
seemed to be the unanimous wish of the people of New Mexico. 

It will be noted that the amendment suggested in the substitute 
is not made mandatory, but is to be submitted to the electors for 
ratification or rejection, as a majority may determine. 

It has been represented to the committee, and is no doubt true 
that the people of the Territory were so desirous of securing state- 


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hood that when the proposed constitution was submitted its merits 
and demerits were not carefully considered, but, being submitted to 
them, as it was, as a whole, a large majority, through their great desire 
to secure statehood, voted for it without regard to what its provisions 
were. The amendment suggested bv the substitute resolution reported 
by the committee, if adopted, will give the people of the Territory 
the power and opportunity which they otherwise would not have—to 
change any provision which in their desire for statehood may not 
have been sufficiently considered when the proposed constitution 
was ratified. 

It will be seen from section 4 of the substitute resolution that pro¬ 
vision is made for a separate ballot for the purpose of voting upon 
such amendment, which is to be printed on paper of a blue tint so as 
to be readily distinguishable from the white ballots which will be 
used for the election of officers at the same election, and that these 
ballots are to be delivered only to the election officers and to be 
delivered by them to the individual voter when he offers to vote. 

These provisions were made because the election is in other respects 
to be held under and subject to the election laws of New Mexico now 
in force, which do not provide for a secret ballot and under which 
ballots are required to be “printed on plain white paper 3 inches in 
width and 8 inches in length or within one-quarter of an inch of that 
size.” (Compiled Laws of New Mexico, 1897, sec. 1634.) And said 
ballots are to have the names of all candidates for the respective 
offices printed thereon, and if the suggested amendments were re¬ 
quired also to be printed on these ballots, it is obvious that there 
would not be room for that purpose, and besides, under the present 
election laws of the Territory the ballots can be distributed indis¬ 
criminately among the people some time before the day of election, 
and in other respects these election laws are lacking in the usual safe¬ 
guards, while the provisions made by the substitute resolution in 
reference to the separate constitutional ballots will guarantee the 
necessary and usual safeguards. 

The committee has also provided in said proposed substitute 
that the enabling act of June 20, 1910, shall be amended by making 
section 5 of said act so read as to remove, the disqualification imposed 
upon the Spanish-American population of New Mexico who can not 
read, write, and speak the English language for holding State offices, 
including membership in the legislature of the new State. No just 
reason is found for such disqualification. 

The evidence before the committee was that these Spanish- 
American citizens are eager for education and largely now speak the 
English language, and strive to advance the teaching of English to 
their children in all of their public schools, but that this provision 
of the enabling act is regarded by them as a reflection upon them and 
their race. They have at all times supported by their votes and the 
imposition of taxes the developing of the public-school system of 
New Mexico. They are largely an agricultural people, frugal, indus¬ 
trious, and earnest supporters of every movement intended to advance 
the progress, prosperity, and civilization of New Mexico. 

Again, it was suggested that this disqualification violates the spirit 
and the letter of the treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo between the United 
States and the Republic of Mexico, entered into on the 2d day of 


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February, 1848, by the terms of which the Territories of New Mexico 
and Arizona were for the most part acquired. 

The said treaty above mentioned, after providing in article 8 
thereof that such citizens of the Republic of Mexico prior to said 
treaty as manifested their desire to become citizens of the United 
States by remaining in such ceded territory for a period of one. year, 
proceeds in article 9 thereof as follows: 

Mexicans who in the territory aforesaid shall not preserve the character of citizens 
of the Mexican Republic, conformably with what is stipulated in the preceding 
article, shall be incorporated into the Union of the United States, and be admitted 
at the proper time (to be judged of by the Congress of the United States) to the enjoy¬ 
ment of all the rights of citizens of the United States, according to the principles of 
the Constitution; and in the meantime shall be maintained and protected in the 
free enjoyment of their liberty and property and secured in the free exercise of their 
religion without restriction. 

It is doubted if the guaranty in Article IX to the previous citizens 
of the Republic of Mexico to be admitted * * * “to the enjoy¬ 

ment of all the rights of citizens of the United States, according to 
the principles of the Constitution” is properly observed or enforced 
by said section 5 of the enabling act, when such citizens are denied 
the right to hold office, as aforesaid, unless they can read, write, and 
speak the English language. No such language restriction is found 
in the Constitution of the United States and the committee believes 
that part of the enabling act containing such provision should be 
repealed. 

The committee has also in its substitute resolution suggested an 
amendment to the proposed constitution of Arizona providing that 
the judiciary of the new State shall not be subject to recall from 
office by popular vote. 

This amendment is not made mandatory, but is merely proposed 
and is to be submitted to the electors for their ratification or rejection 
at the first general election for State and county officers. 

The controlling reason of the committee for proposing this change 
was the objection of the President of the United States to the recall 
provision of the Arizona constitution so far as it applies to the judi- 
ciary, and the belief on the part of the committee that if the recall 
as applied to the judiciary was again submitted to the people of Ari¬ 
zona it would meet the objection of the President. 

The committee did not provide a separate ballot for voting on the 
proposed amendment to the Arizona constitution as it did in the case 
of New Mexico for the reason that Arizona has an effective and mod¬ 
ern Australian election law, under which there is no restriction on the 
size or shape of the ballots, and the election on this amendment will 
be held under and subject to that election law, except so far as said 
law requires an educational qualification as a prerequisite to the right 
to vote. This exception was made in order to protect the Spanish- 
American electors of Arizona in the right to vote on this amendment. 


VIEWS OF THE MINORITY. 

rhe undersigned favor the immediate admission of New Mexico as 
a State in the Union. 

All that remains to secure this result is for Congress to approve 
the constitution adopted by the people of New Mexico. 

In the last Congress the Committee on Territories unanimously 
reported and the House of Representatives unanimously passed a 
resolution approving the constitution formed by the constitutional 
convention of the Territory of New Mexico and ratified at an elec¬ 
tion held in that Territory. A similar resolution was introduced by 
the present chairman of the Committee on Territories in the present 
House as House joint resolution 14. 

We favor the passage of this resolution, so far as it relates to New 
Mexico, in the language and form as introduced in this Congress by 
the chairman of the committee and as passed by the House in the last 
Congress. 

There is no good reason why Congress should not approve the 
constitution of New Mexico in accordance with the provisions of the 
enabling act. The resolution as reported by the majority of the com¬ 
mittee proposes to require the people of New Mexico to vote upon an 
amendment to their constitution amending article 19 of the New 
Mexico constitution which relates to future amendments of that con¬ 
stitution. In our opinion there is no occasion for Congress to under¬ 
take to influence the action of the people of New Mexico in regard to 
the pro vision in the New Mexico constitution concerning amendments 
to that constitution. The provisions in the New Mexico constitution 
relating to constitutional amendments are no more strict than those 
in the constitutions of many of the States or in the Constitution of 
the United States. 

We do not believe it to be the duty of Congress to pass upon the 
particular provisions in the constitution of a proposed State which is 
m form the constitution of a republican government, except it be 
some provision fundamentally destructive of republican institutions 
and representative government. 

We object to the requirement that New Mexico shall be compelled 
to vote again upon a provision in her constitution merely regulating 
the method of amending the constitution. 

We further object to the delay in the admission of New Mexico as 
a State which will be caused by requiring a new election to be held 
as proposed by the majority. New Mexico has complied in every 
respect with the provisions of the enabling act and has presented for 
approval a constitution to which Congress ought not to take any 
exception, and, in our opinion, the Territory of New Mexico is now 
entitled to immediate admission as a State. 

As to Arizona, we agree with the majority of the Committee on 
Territories that there should be submitted to the qualified voters of 

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Arizona the question whether the provision in their proposed consti¬ 
tution providing for a recall of public officers shall apply to judicial 
officers, the said question to be submitted at an election to be held 
in that Territory before the Territory is admitted as a State. 

■ We believe that the provision in the Arizona constitution as adopted 
in that Territory, which would authorize 25 per cent of the voters 
in any judicial district to require an election to be held to see whether 
some judge who may have rendered an unpopular decision shall be 
retained in office or ousted from his office, is fundamentally destruc¬ 
tive of republican form of government. 

We believe that such a provision in constitution or law would lead 
to constant assaults upon the judiciary; would tend to take away 
from the judges the spirit of independent desire to do right, would 
constantly hold before the judges the fear of hysterical excitement, 
would be destructive of the theory upon which our National and State 
Governments have been organized, and might lead to grave disaster 
if not chaos. . 

The enabling act authorized the approval or disapproval of the 
constitutions adopted by the people of the Territories of New’ Mexico 
and Arizona. We favor the approval of the constitution adopted 
by the people of the Territory of New T Mexico and we favor the 
disapproval of the constitution adopted by the people of the Territory 
of Arizona unless and until it shall be so amended that the provision 
for recall of public officers shall not apply to the judiciary. 

We therefore favor, as to Arizona, the passage of a resolution pro¬ 
viding that there shall be submitted to the qualified voters of Arizona, 
at an election to be duly called, the question whether the provision in 
the Arizona constitution relating to recall of public officers shall be 
construed not to apply to judicial officers, and that the admission of 
Arizona as a State in the Union under its constitution shall be de¬ 
pendent upon the ratification of the proposition or amendment 
providing that the recall of public officers, as now proposed in the 
Arizona constitution heretofore adopted, shall not be construed to 
apply to judicial officers. 

We believe that this question can be submitted to the voters of 
Arizona at the same time with the election of State and other officers, 
at an election to be called in conformity with the provisions in the 
enabling act, in order to save the delay and expense of two elections in 
Arizona, the election of officers being of course entirely ineffective 
unless the amendment to the constitution be ratified at such election; 
and we favor a resolution admitting Arizona into the Union as a State 
if the amendment so proposed to the constitution be ratified at the 
election to be called. 

We therefore recommend that the resolution be adopted in the 
following form, to wit: 

JOINT RESOLUTION Approving the constitution formed by the constitutional convention of the 

Territory of New Mexico, and providing for the admission of the Territory of Arizona as a State in the 

Union. 

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in 
Congress assembled , That the constitution formed by the constitutional convention of 
the Territory of New Mexico, elected in accordance with the terms of the act of Con¬ 
gress entitled “ An act to enable the people of New Mexico to form a constitution and 
State government and be admitted into tne Union on an equal footing with the original 
States, and so forth,” approved June twentieth, anno Domini nineteen hundred and 
ten, which said constitutional convention met at Santa Fe, New Mexico, on the third 


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day of October, anno Domini nineteen hundred and ten, and adjourned November 
twenty-first, anno Domini nineteen hundred and ten, and which constitution was 
subsequently ratified and adopted by the duly qualified electors of the Territory of 
JNew Mexico, at an election held according to law on the twenty-first day of January, 
anno Domini nineteen hundred and eleven, being republican in form, and not repug¬ 
nant to the Constitution of the United States and the principles of the Declaration of 
Independence, and complying with the terms of said enabling act, be, and the same 
is hereby, approved, subject to the terms and conditions of the joint resolution entitled 
Joint resolution reaffirming the boundary line between Texas and the Territory of 
New Mexico,” approved on the sixteenth day of February, anno Domini nineteen 
hundred and eleven. 

Sec. 2. That the Territory of Arizona be admitted into this Union as a State with 
the constitution which was formed by the constitutional convention of the Territory 
of Arizona elected in accordance with the terms of the enabling act, approved June 
twentieth, anno Domini nineteen hundred and ten, which constitution was subse¬ 
quently ratified and adopted by the duly qualified voters of the Territory of Arizona 
at an election held according to law on the ninth day of February, anno Domini nine¬ 
teen hundred and eleven, upon the fundamental condition, however, that article eight 
of the said constitution of Arizona, in so far at it relates to the “ recall of public officers, 5 ’. 
shall be held and construed not to apply to judicial officers, and that the people 
of Arizona shall give their assent to such construction of article eight of the said con¬ 
stitution. • 

That within thirty days after the passage of this resolution and its approval by the 
President, the President shall certify the fact to the governor of Arizona, who shall, 
within thirty days after the receipt of such certificate from the President, issue his 
proclamation for an election by the qualified voters of Arizona, to be held not earlier 
than sixty nor later than ninety days thereafter, at which election the qualified voters 
of Arizona shall vote upon the proposition that “Article eight of the constitution, in 
so far as it relates to ‘recall of public officers,’ shall be held and construed not to apply 
to judicial officers,” and shall also vote for State and county officers, members of the 
State legislature, and Representatives in Congress, and all other officers provided for 
in said constitution of Arizona; said election to be held and the returns thereof made, 
canvassed, and certified as provided in section twenty-three of the enabling act 
approved June twentieth, nineteen hundred and ten. 

If a majority of the qualified voters of Arizona voting at such election ratify and 
adopt the herein proposed construction of article eight of the constitution, the same 
shall be and become a part of the said constitution, and said article eight of said con¬ 
stitution, in so far as it relates to the “recall of public officers,” shall have like effect 
as if judicial officers were expressly excepted therefrom. 

If the proposed construction of said article eight of the constitution is duly ratified 
and adopted by the qualified voters of Arizona, the election of officers at the same elec¬ 
tion shall be and become valid and effective. 

When said election as to the proposed construction of the said constitution and of 
State and county officers, members of the legislature, and Representative in Congress, 
and other officers provided for in said constitution has been held, the result thereof 
shall at once be certified by the governor of the Territory of Arizona to the President 
of the United States, and if the proposed construction of article eight of the said con¬ 
stitution of Arizona has been ratified and adopted by a majority of the qualified voters 
of Arizona voting at such election, the President of the United States shall immedi¬ 
ately make proclamation thereof and of the result of the election of officers, and upon 
the issuance of said proclamation by the President of the United States, Arizona 
shall, without other proceeding, be deemed admitted by Congress into the Union by 
virtue of this joint resolution, upon the terms and conditions of the said enabling act 
approved June twentieth, nineteen hundred and ten, except as modified herein, and 
on an equal footing with the other States. 

William H. Draper. 
Frank E. Guernsey. 

J. N. Langham. 

Frank B. Willis. 
William H. Andrews. 
Ralph H. Cameron. 


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VIEWS OF MR. WEDEMEYER AND MR. YOUNG OF 

KANSAS. 


We agree to the minority views so far as they relate to New Mexico. 

We disagree to the minority views so far as they relate to Arizona. 

We are in favor of both Territories coming into the Union as States 
under the constitutions adopted by the people of both New Mexico 
and Arizona, pursuant to the enabling act, by large majorities. We 
are for the passage of House joint resolution 14, as introduced April 
4, which joint resolution as originally introduced we favor without 
amendment. 

W. W. Wedemeyer. 

I. D. Young. 


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